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How Digital Media feed (into) your Publishing Cycle
Christine Tulley, professor of English and rhetoric, emphasizes the shift from linear publishing models to more circular, cross-referential publishing cycles that include promotion of one’s own research in combination with a media profile: Trends in both scholarly publishing as well as libraries’ role in the research and publication processes confirm this shift from a linear […]
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Explore Space with Immersive Data Sculpture
OUCHHH, an independent new media studio, has created a digital media installation, datagate, with which to explore outer space interactively. Here is their summary of the project: The installation consists of 3 parts; Form, Light and Space. Light is world’s first artwork based upon the idea of utilization of Machine Learning in the context of space […]
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Welcome back: It’s Year 2 for DHMS
As the semester gets under way, DHMS is ready to roll out a number of updates, news, and events for the new academic year 2017/18. Welcome back, everyone! First a quick review of Year 1: following the creation of the brand new graduate certificate in Digital Humanities and Media Studies in February – with much-appreciated […]
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Watch Your .edu, Know Your Repositories
In a January 2017 Forbes article on scholarly publishing, historian Sarah Bond takes aim at platforms ready to host academic articles or chapters. For pay. Her case in point is academia.edu: As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies […]
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New Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities and Media Studies
The first brainbytes blog of the spring semester serves as an announcement: UCONN has a brand new Graduate Certificate! Welcome back. Pending final approval by the Board of Trustees, the Humanities Institute is pleased to announce a Graduate Certificate in DHMS. This certificate will supply interested graduate students with crucial training and with marketable skills […]
[Read More]DHMS Q & A
Yohei Igarashi, Assistant Professor of English
1. What initially intrigued you about research/teaching in digital humanities or media studies? I was immersed in media studies from the very start of grad school, but not really before then. One of the first courses I took as a masters student at Columbia focused on media studies, and later, when I was a Ph.D. […]
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Jennifer Terni, Associate Professor of French (Literatures, Cultures, and Languages)
1. What initially intrigued you about research/teaching in digital humanities or media studies? My interest in media studies is a longstanding one and is no doubt rooted in my inter-disciplinarity. My MA in history was about the ideological valences of one of France’s most successful early pulp fiction writers, Eugène Sue. Working on […]
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